Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark finally closed on Broadway last weekend, after a run that included cast injuries, a change of director, an inflated budget and historic losses.
Along the way, the show garnered a reputation as "Broadway's most disaster-prone production" (in the words of Variety's Ramin Setoodeh,) as well as "the most expensive musical ever made."
From the start, the show was plagued with technical glitches.
A total of six cast members were injured on the set, resulting in lawsuits. And the special effects-laden production cost a total of $75 million, twice as much as any other Broadway musical.
As Classicalite reported in November, the costs of running the production were enormous, between $1 million and $1.3 million per week.
Moreover, the weekly costs sometimes exceeded ticket revenue.
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